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Artist:	HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT
Title:	Two Originals
Label:	MINORITY RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	MINOR 275CD

Two-fer of the only 2 albums by this IK based group. Features: Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids (1967) & Western Flier (1969). Human Host was their classic first album freak out from the UK, originally released in 1967. Not far from the disassociational ecstasy being created in NYC by the Godz, this is perfectly tranced lysergic blather, and an underrated document of its time. "A band like this, incorporating flower power, love and peace, acid and psychedelic rock lifestyle, tainted with freak out, drop out, hippy and underground trends, could not have existed in any other era than the late '60ss ('67/68). Before that time, this phenomenon was labeled amateurism or hype and dismissed as musical nonsense. The first extremely freaky LP the group launched was an LSD trip opera." Western Flier, was the 2nd album from 1969. The talents of Groundhogs guitarist T.S. McPhee and songwriter Mike Batt can be heard on this 'strange' LP, the second and final release from Hapshash. The ultra rare 'Colinda' single is included amongst the 10 featured tracks. Contrary to the first album, which mainly consisted of free music, lyric poetry, Gregorian chants and Andalusian/oriental folk music, Western Flier was a crazy, high-spirited collection of old, well known folk-rock and blues material, spiced with all such currently used, individually distorted studio effects such as fuzz, feedback, phasing, etc."

Artist:	HAPSHASH & THE COLOURED COAT
Title:	Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SC 5272LP

"One of the most sought-after of all '60s cult LPs, 1967's Hapshash and the Coloured Coat Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids is the sort of record that could only have emerged during the psychedelic era, and a vibrant manifestation of that period's freewheeling, boundary-breaking spirit of musical adventure. Hapshash and the Colored Coat -- the English duo of Michael English and Nigel Weymouth -- initially achieved notoriety as a graphic design team whose distinctive visual sensibility placed them at the center of London's original psychedelic explosion. The pair's vivid visual imagination spawned numerous album covers, including Cream's iconic Disraeli Gears, and countless posters promoting performances at London's legendary UFO Club by such acts as Pink Floyd and the Incredible String Band. Those visual works brilliantly captured the London scene's buoyant, mind-expanding vibe, and feature some of the psychedelic era's most arresting imagery. Such was Hapshash and the Colored Coat's prominence and influence that, in 1967, they were given the opportunity to branch out as a recording act. For the occasion, English and Weymouth teamed with legendary producer/manager/DJ/scene catalyst Guy Stevens, whose lengthy resume encompasses work with the Rolling Stones, Procol Harum, Mott the Hoople and The Clash. The result was Hapshash and the Coloured Coat Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids. The unlikely collaboration produced a one-of-a-kind sonic experience that exemplifies the spirit of psychedelia while sounding like no other record of its time, mixing primal vocal chants and insistent tribal rhythms with proto-funk guitar and bluesy piano on such memorably titled tracks as 'H-O-P-P-Why?,' 'The New Messiah Coming 1985,' 'Empires of the Sun' and 'A Mind Blown Is a Mind Shown.' Out of print on vinyl for decades and never before reissued domestically, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids has been meticulously restored for this LP reissue, using Sundazed's usual exacting standards. The album is pressed on high-quality audiophile vinyl, and features complete original cover art."

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